"Faced with that precarity, it’s easy for men—especially young men—to believe that their own best shot at climbing the economic ladder comes from having a woman at home to prop them up behind the scenes." 3/

At the same time, "men don’t want to think of themselves as 'bad guys' if they lean on their wives and girlfriends and sisters and mothers so they can get ahead in their own careers. And that’s where the myth of Mars and Venus comes in." 4/